Senior Backend Engineer - Java & Cloud Microservices

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Software Engineer III to drive backend services for the Chase UK initiative. You will work in a distributed team delivering cloud-native microservices and collaborating to improve customer journeys within digital banking.

The role emphasizes secure coding, scalable architectures, and robust testing across the stack, with opportunities to contribute to fraud prevention, identity services, payments, and onboarding through the lifecycle of products and incidents.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience.
• Recent hands-on professional experience as a back-end software engineer.
• Experience in coding in a recent version of the Java programming language.
• Experience in designing and implementing effective tests (unit, component, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc.).
• Excellent written and verbal communicationskills in English.
• Understanding of cloud technologies, distributed systems, RESTful APIs and web technologies.
• Familiarity with relational data stores.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to end-to-end solutions in the form of cloud-native microservices architecture applications leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices
• Use domain modelling techniques to allow us to build best in class business products.
• Structure software so that it is easy to understand, test and evolve.
• Build solutions that avoid single points of failure, using scalable architectural patterns.
• Develop secure code so that our customers and ourselves are protected from malicious actors.
• Promptly investigate and fix issues and ensure they do not resurface in the future.
• Make sure our releases happen with zero downtime for our end-users.
• See that our data is written and read in a way that's optimized for our needs.
• Keep an eye on performance, making sure we use the right approach to identify and solve problems.
• Ensure our systems are reliable and easy to operate.
• Keep us up to date by continuously updating our technologies and patterns.
• Support the products you've built through their entire lifecycle, including in production and during incident management

Skills

Java

REST APIs

Cloud technologies

Distributed systems

Test automation

Communication in English

Tools

AWS

Job description

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Software Engineer III to drive backend services for the Chase UK initiative. You will work in a distributed team delivering cloud-native microservices and collaborating to improve customer journeys within digital banking.

The role emphasizes secure coding, scalable architectures, and robust testing across the stack, with opportunities to contribute to fraud prevention, identity services, payments, and onboarding through the lifecycle of products and incidents.